I know Signal is secure and all — and I use it myself — but I can’t help but think how can we trusted that the central servers aren’t wiretapped? It would be the ultimate proof of security if one could transparently verify that the middle man is running the actual code it claims to be running.
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that - https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tchap-the-super-not-secure-app-...
To be fair, the vulnerability was fixed quickly. And in the end it improved the security of Matrix and the governement application. I prefer this to a closed-source application developed internally, without communication on security vulnerabilities.
Yes, does cover that in the link and from my perspective - ruddy good response time upon that and well handled.
I can think of many comparable situations in other countries (some EU ones as well) in which the person finding the issue would of very easily been locked up.
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#53I'm supprised they have not developed their own or at least, bankrolled the development of one via grants. Though it would be good if there was an open source communications platform that would allow the public to engage with politicians in a formal and constructive way. Alas, so much disparity in solutions that it often irks me. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/projects Be great if the interface was bet…
Why reinvent the wheel? Signal does the job, doesn't store data, not even metadata, and can be used immediately.
It's a wheel that they do not have any control over, from source, hosting and distribution.
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#54Unfortunately, the IT department of the European Parliament has forbidden Signal Desktop and recommends WhatsApp.
any source or official document on this ?
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#55Ursula von der Leyen knows about the dangers of leaving incriminating information on cell phones.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can one really trust they don't store more if they physicaly have the information at one point in time ? Or possibly their upstream connectivity provider could do that metadata scrapping.
I will link to this each and every time this comes up: https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/ Signal turned over everything they had on this user (which was two time stamps: user creation and last access), and fought the gag order to be able to publish the subpoena and the response. Signal would have to be pretty stupid to lie to a federal court. Think what you want, but Signal doesn’t have any me…
And how often where the silenced by US law and weren't even allowed to mention such a thing? We will never know.
Re: EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
#57Unfortunately, the IT department of the European Parliament has forbidden Signal Desktop and recommends WhatsApp.
any source or official document on this ?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why reinvent the wheel? Signal does the job, doesn't store data, not even metadata, and can be used immediately.
It's a wheel that they do not have any control over, from source, hosting and distribution.
But for an entity like the EU they could have complete control over the lot, with relative ease. The client, server and protocol are all open.
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#59How is something that's tied to your phone number "secure"?
The communications are encrypted, but my identity is public.
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#60I'm supprised they have not developed their own or at least, bankrolled the development of one via grants. Though it would be good if there was an open source communications platform that would allow the public to engage with politicians in a formal and constructive way. Alas, so much disparity in solutions that it often irks me. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/projects Be great if the interface was bet…
This is for communications to outsiders, who can't be expected to have an EU-internal app installed on their devices. Signal is reasonably widespread, and probably the best such messaging platform out there, although it has serious issues like the requirement for a phone number.